Cycle

Cycle, cycles, or cyclic may refer to:

Anthropology and social sciences

Cyclic history, a theory of history
Cyclical theory, a theory of American political history associated with Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
Social cycle, various cycles in social sciences
Business cycle, the downward and upward movement of gross domestic product (GDP) around its ostensible, long-term growth trend

Cycle (music), a set of musical pieces that belong together
Cyclic form, a technique of construction involving multiple sections or movements
Interval cycle, a collection of pitch classes generated from a sequence of the same interval class
Song cycle, individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit

Cycles, a render engine for the software Blender
Instruction cycle, the time period during which a computer processes a machine language instruction
Reference cycle, where a software object refers directly or indirectly to itself

Cycle (algebraic topology), a simplicial chain with 0 boundary
Cycle (graph theory), a nontrivial path in a graph from a node to itself
Cycle graph, a graph that is itself a cycle
Cycle matroid, a matroid derived from the cycle structure of a graph
Cycle (sequence), a sequence with repeating values
Cycle detection, the algorithmic problem of detecting repetitions in sequences generated by iterated functions
Cycle, a set equipped with a cyclic order
Necklace (combinatorics), an equivalence classes of cyclically ordered sequences of symbols modulo certain symmetries
Cyclic (mathematics), a list of mathematics articles with "cyclic" in the title
Cyclic group, a group generated by a single element
Cyclic permutation, a basic permutation (all permutations are products of cycles)

Cycle (angular unit), a unit of plane angle
Cycle (rotational unit), a unit of number of rotations
Charge cycle, charging and discharging a rechargeable battery
Thermodynamic cycle, a sequence of processes that transfer heat and work into and out of a system
Wave cycle, the repeatable part of a periodic wave
Cyclic, a primary flight control for helicopters
Cyclic compound
Cycle in cycle per second, which is a unit of frequency (rate of repetition)
A period in alternating current

Cycling, a sport
Cycle (baseball), a single, double, triple, and home run (in any order) by the same player in one game
Cycle, North Carolina, a community in the United States
Cycle Brand, an incense brand of NR Group